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Back to Manhattan from the Pan-American Conference at Lima (TIME, Nov. 21, et seq.), where she was a U. S. delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Ex-Teacher | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: At the White House | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Other women's colleges are known to be aiding refugee students. Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr have already raised enough for three students. Drives are under way at Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Maine. Amherst, Tulane and Chicago are also reported to have helped many students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE GIRLS EAT HASH TO RAISE MONEY | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

Other delegates: Bryn Mawr College's Charles G. Fenwick, top-flight expert on political science; Chief Justice Emilio del Toro Cuevas of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; President Dan W. Tracy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Miss Kathryn Lewis, who quit Bryn Mawr to help her famed father John L., with U. A. W.; Rev. John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Mrs. Elise F. Musser, who had kept herself before South American eyes by paying a flying visit to the continent last year with a group of U. S. women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Wrinkle Remover | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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